Last Tuesday, June 13, the last of the three Bearded Vultures to be released in 2023 arrived at the hacking facilities in the Sierra de Gredos Regional Park. It is a bird born last March, in the Center for Breeding in Human Isolation (CRIAH), owned by the Government of Aragon and managed by the Foundation [...]

FCQ participates in the opening day of the IX Ornithology Course "Know the Birds of Avila". This course, which since 2014 has been organized by the Provincial Council of Avila, aims to awaken interest in nature, and especially in the world of ornithology and in the 2023 edition has had the participation of 49 people. [...]

A female named Benemérita will soon join the two birds already flying free in the Sierra de Gredos, Risco and Galana. This Tuesday, he underwent a veterinary check-up and passed to the 'adaptive hacking' platform. Last Tuesday, May 16, the first of the three bearded vultures that will be released during 2023 arrived at the [...]

Last Monday the FCQ presented the LIFE Pro Bearded Vulture project to the members of SEPRONA and GREIM of the Avila command in the Casa del Parque de Hoyos del Espino. During the conference, the details of the project were explained and special emphasis was placed on the aspects in which the Civil Guard can [...]

Throughout the month of January, taking advantage of the fact that the herds are in winter quarters, FCQ technicians have traveled through the Sierra de Gredos to analyze the situation of extensive livestock farming in mountain pastures. The report highlights that, while cattle have doubled their numbers since 1982, sheep have almost disappeared and maintain [...]

Last March, the two bearded vultures released in Gredos in the framework of the LIFE Pro Bearded Vulture project, settled for several months in the Sierra de Guadarrama National Park, which suggests The national park will become one of the most important points during the dispersal process in the coming years. For this reason, the [...]

The FCQ and the management of the Gredos Regional Reserve. On 11-3-2023, the traditional annual hunting auction was held in the Gredos Regional Reserve, which FCQ attended. They were able to observe firsthand the hunting management of the reserve and its importance for the territory. Esta actividad permite no solo gestionar los recursos de [...]

On December 10, FCQ presented the LIFE project in an event organized by the city council in the nature classroom of El Raso. The audience, 22 people, showed great interest in the return of the species to the Sierra de Gredos.

Gredos is one of the most frequented breeding areas by the Sandgrouse released in Cazorla by the Junta de Andalución during their juvenile dispersal period. This circumstance has been the trigger for the two projects to strengthen their relationship. At the end of November, two technicians of the Necrophagous Bird Recovery and Conservation Plan of [...]

TheFCQ together with the Junta de Castilla y León has released today the first two bearded vultures in the Sierra de Gredos. These specimens, on loan from the Government of Aragon, will be the first of 15 birds that will be incorporated in the territory of Avila during the 5 years of the project, [...]